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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten the mood is gone life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
Vita Sackville-West
The more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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Tools have their own integrity.
Vita Sackville-West
Summer makes a silence after spring.
Vita Sackville-West
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
Vita Sackville-West
Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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